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Technology Stocks : Citrix Systems (CTXS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Newman who wrote (5227)	3/13/1998 9:37:00 AM
From: jkb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9068

Alan - CTXS benefits from web-written applications and even better, they benefit from non-web written applications through their ALE interface. You can either use a Windows browser with the CTXS plug-in or active-x control to launch Windows applications from a browser, or you can embed the Windows application directly into the HTML page. I've seen it done several times, and it is simply great - clients love it. With this methodology, you don't need the full WinFrame client, just the plug-in or active-x control, and then you gain connectivity to applications installed on the WinFrame server from your browser or in your browser. So, don't worry, be happy - CTXS benefits on web-based applications.

To: Alan Newman who wrote (5227)	3/13/1998 9:53:00 AM
From: Jon Tara	Respond to of 9068

"My concern about CTXS is that as new applications are written, won't they be Web applications" Beautiful dreamer, la da de daaaah... la da da da da da daah dah da da! (Sorry, those are the only words I remember!) Currently, you lose a LOT of flexibility by writing "web applications", while getting a horribly clunky user interface vs. what people are used to. Java has NOT delivered on it's promise, and most "web applications" today are primarly using server-side technologies such as ASP, Cold Fusion, etc. with a "page at a time" user interface with perhaps a bit of Javascript thrown in. Sure, there are "web applications" being written, but they're a small percentage of total applications written. Yes, the classic client-server database application IS migrating to Intranet web applications. But other classes of applications are NOT.